Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies; Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
About
I investigate the basic cognitive processes that underly word recognition and sentence comprehension. My research interests include the psychology of language; sentence comprehension, word recognition & discourse processing. How is syntactic knowledge stored and accessed? What is the relationship between syntactic and semantic processing? How are linguistic ambiguities resolved? Under what circumstances is unambiguous linguistic input difficult to comprehend? I am also interested in how grammatical knowledge is represented for people who speak more than one language, or more than one dialogue of the same language.
Representative Publications
Queen R. & Boland, J.E. (2015) I think your going to like me: Exploring the role of mistakes in email messages on assessments of potential housemates. Linguistics Vanguard. DOI 10.1515/lingvan-2015-0011
Yu, J., Zhang, Y., & Boland, J.E., & Cai, L. (2015). The interplay between referential processing and local syntactic/semantic processing : ERPs to written Chinese discourses. Brain Research, 1597, 139-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2014.12.013
Hsieh, Y. & Boland, J. E. (2015). Semantic support and parallel parsing in Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 44, 251-276. 10.1007/s10936-014-9296-4
Boland, J. E. (2014). Review of “A History of Psycholinguistics: The pre-Chomskyan era,” by Willem J. M. Levelt. Historiographia Linguistica, International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences, 41(1), 168-175. 10.1075/hl.41.1.10bol
Area
- Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Affiliation(s)
Field(s) of Study
- Psycholinguistics, sentence comprehension and parsing, lexical representation, bilingualism and dialects
